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Terry Pulliam Burd[_3_]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:38:33 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>Anyone with a 100-year old home has a moral duty to preserve
>and maintain their 100-year-old kitchen architectural features.
>
>I shudder at the thought of folks ripping this stuff out and
>thinking they're doing the right thing.

A number of years ago, the DH and I looked at buying a house in
Collierville TN that was over 100 years old and had actually been used
as a field hospital during the Battle of Shiloh, or so we were told.
Very pretty setting, very pretty house - traditional four rooms down
and four rooms up with central hall, stunning double staircase, but
the kitchen would have had to be just about gutted and joined to the
next room to work for a contemporary family. I just hated the thought
of busting through all that old lathe and plaster work. Although the
kitchen had certainly been somewhat updated over the years since the
Civil War, it was still cramped and bad original design didn't help.
We finally decided that the place would be a remodeling and
maintenance nightmare (had an oil furnace that looked as if the oil
was piped in from Saudi Arabia with ancient ductwork to boot) and the
cost would outweigh the charm.

It also had a couple of old slave quarters out back that were still in
decent shape and I was certainly of two minds about *that*! I mean, I
couldn't see making guest quarters or childrens' playrooms out of
them. Or even storage sheds. And tearing them down would have also
seemed disrespectful.

I often wonder what I could have done with the place given enough
time, money and imagination, though.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd...who still misses Corky's
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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